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unreasonably judgmental rant against your solution

Vague/useless contribution of an alternative

here's a penny, bot

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It's OK to criticize without offering solutions

This!, its amazing how some people want to drag you into their world and have a huge discussion when all you want to do is point out some part of their idea your dont like.

Yep It's some kind of logical fallacy where they try to discredit what you're saying by asserting that you must have some kind of solution in order to justify identifying a problem. It feels as if they try to 'prove' that they are smarter than you are, because you clearly don't have solutions where they clearly do.

It's a weak form of deflection.

There was nothing constructive about his criticism of the platform related to web dev in any way.

I know a lot about his politics now though.

> I know a lot about his politics now though.

I guarantee you do not.

There’s no criticism there. Calling people racists and bots is not criticism, it’s just name calling. There is nothing critical about it.

It was an observation, and a criticism. It was massively reported that Shitter has a huge problem with bots, and was very publicly known when company valuations were happening. And, since the handover to Musk, there has been a documented shift to extreme-right-wing content on the site.

I'm not going to beat around the bush. You know as well as I do that X has become the de-facto social media network for extreme-right demographics and the overall quality of content has objectively diminished as a result.

Yes, the quality has gone down, but not much quality can be had in 140 characters in the first place - so it is impressive that it was managed in the first place.

> their users are either racists, bots, or simply garbage people

It is a bit intolerant to go and blanket label a large group of people like that. Sure there are extreme views, but that is what is bound to happen when you have a large amount of users on a platform. So it is on reddit, bluesky, YouTube and what-not. But there are also a lot of milder people.

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